Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with 'Valdai' International Discussion Club members in the town of Valdai September 19, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool
Vladimir Putin Is Bucking To Join Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter, Albert Gore And Win Nobel Peace Prize -- Conrad Black, New York Sun
Little is left to be written about the discordant integration of reality television and “The Gong Show” that President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, and their collaborators produced the past three weeks over Syria. Like an unpredictably bouncing American football, this story moved in diagonals and backward and forward until the target became peacemaker, the villain the benefactor, and the means to achieve the end shrank “unbelievably” and then vanished, as the wrongdoer surrendered the forbidden weapons he claimed not to have to those who denied he had used them and had probably supplied them in the first place.
Then, the presidential entourage launched a Twitter and spin offensive vastly more complicated than anything that the commander-in-chief, after he abdicated that role to the Congress, had contemplated asking, unsuccessfully, for the Congress, which had no constitutional standing to do anything of the kind, to authorize.
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My Comment: Conrad Black is usually spot on in his analysis on foreign news events and trends .... he does not disappoint in this posting. On a side note .... and this is depressing .... Putin says he may seek 4th presidential term -- AP
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